Save Us From ‘Jesus’
Jeezus! Jesus!
In sixteen years of Catholic education, I missed something. Jesus.
“Jesus Saves” is more than a slogan. Jesus is the one responsible for economic justice, or injustice, depending on the side of the equation you sit on.
“Mike,” with more initials on his name tag than the word Mississippi, was lurking to catch me after my presentation on family homelessness in Florence, SC, on the birthday of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the modern father of economic justice (among other things), who said,
“God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
Dr. King, “Strength to Love”, 1963
Mike, whose interest in money was spelled out by those initials, is a professional money man. A financial adviser. He came right to the point. “By economic justice, I hope you don’t mean taxing the rich.”
Alrighty. I took a breath and said that’s part of it.
Mike assured me that Jesus will take care of getting money from the very wealthy. That’s why they have so much…
